RSS

Glass Wings Blog

The Glass Wings mailing list and blog is for general idle chit-chat about things we find interesting, especially humor, animation or other subjects relevant to the Glass Wings web site.

2025 AI Australia big change China climate coronavirus electric energy first future heat help new people power research Russia science Ukraine US war world year

‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk in 500 years

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:38:32 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/07/no-one-knows-where-it-came-from-first-wild-beaver-spotted-in-norfolk-for-400-years>

"A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers
were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.

(More...)

NZ’s rejection of emission targets fuels risk of international law breach

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:37:32 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/nzs-rejection-of-emission-targets-fuels-risk-of-international-law-breach-271295>

"The New Zealand government’s decision this week to reject all of the Climate
Change Commission’s emission target recommendations was just the latest in a
string of policy statements that weaken the country’s action on climate.

(More...)

How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:36:02 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/23/ginkgo/

"Pressed between the pages of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — a favorite
book of my childhood, which my grandmother used to read to me and which still
dwells in her immense library — is a single yellow leaf, its curved fan almost

(More...)

DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:34:30 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5630490/prison-doj-safety-memo-changes-trans-lgbtq-inmates>

“The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons
and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and
gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo

(More...)

"The Ladykillers" at 70: how one film turned British whimsy into a darkly comic masterpiece

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:28:43 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/the-ladykillers-at-70-how-one-film-turned-british-whimsy-into-a-darkly-comic-masterpiece-250781>

"Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in a rickety Victorian house near
London’s King’s Cross railway station. She rents a room to Professor Marcus
(Alec Guinness), who claims to be a musician, and asks to use the room for

(More...)

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 12:25:04 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/07/kremlin-hails-trump-national-security-strategy-as-aligned-with-russia-vision>

"The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security
strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with
Russian thinking.

(More...)

A Melbourne bakery found TikTok fame, before trolls began harassing its young staff. How the owners responded went viral

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 04:01:46 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/06/melbourne-bakery-montmorency-tiktok-harassment-viral-video>

"Lawrence Du knew instinctively that his parents’ bakery had the potential to
pop off on social media.

(More...)

...hope in dark times...

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 04:00:17 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://newsletter.susankayequinn.com/v5y8e9o6w3

"As the days get shorter (and the insanity of the world continues), we've
always reached for a bit of light in the darkness.

(More...)

At least 12 homes destroyed as more than 75 bushfires burn across NSW

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 03:58:39 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/06/eastern-australia-swelters-in-severe-heatwave-as-bushfires-burn-and-dry-lightning-risks-new-blazes>

"Extreme weather conditions are lingering across parts of Australia as crews
fight to contain bushfires in multiple states.

(More...)

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right

Mon, 8 Dec 2025 03:56:36 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/civilisational-erasure-us-strategy-document-appears-to-echo-far-right-conspiracy-theories-about-europe>

"Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure”
within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration,
arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the

(More...)

Home E-Mail Sponsors Index Search About Us